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Editor’s note: Boz Hristov is a senior analyst within TBR’s Professional Services Practice. Boz leads and participates in research and analysis of the financial performances and strategic investments of the companies in the professional services market, including Accenture, Deloitte and Infosys. In addition to his quarterly benchmarking activities, Boz leads TBR’s digital marketing services research for Digital Marketing Services Vendor Profiles, the Digital Marketing Services Benchmark, Digital Marketing Services Customer Buying Behavior and the Global Delivery Benchmark. TBR: What do you see as the major trends in the areas you cover? Boz: My research focus is split between two...

Editor’s note: Automation, not policy, will kill H-1B visas, say Technology Business Research analysts Patrick Heffernan, Bozhidar Hristov and Ryan Blanchard. HAMPTON, N.H. – If the new U.S. administration’s campaign policies continue to become a reality, the future of the H-1B visa program and the resulting impact on companies remain uncertain. The dynamics and cost equations regarding labor arbitrage, along with the use of predominately India-based labor to deliver services to U.S.-based clients, will be significantly altered. President Donald Trump and his top advisers made clear prior to Trump’s election that the existing visa program needed dramatic reform to...

Editor’s note: Analysts from Technology Business Research see major changes ahead in the telecom industry’s future under a Donald Trump Administration. In the second of a multi-part report, the analysts predict what will happen under the FCC. Part one is also available to WRAL TechWire Insiders Contributing analysts include: Michael Sullivan-Trainor, Telecom Executive Analyst Chris Antlitz, Telecom Senior Analyst Michael Soper, Telecom Analyst Patrick Filkins, Telecom Analyst Tax reform: Lower corporate tax rate and cash repatriation tax rate Likely Policy: Tax reform will be one of the top priorities of the Trump administration, particularly lowering the corporate tax rate...

Editor’s note: Analysts from Technology Business Research see major changes ahead in the telecom industry’s future under a Donald Trump Administration. In the first of a multi-part report, the analysts predict what will happen under the FCC. Contributing analysts include: Michael Sullivan-Trainor, Telecom Executive Analyst Chris Antlitz, Telecom Senior Analyst Michael Soper, Telecom Analyst Patrick Filkins, Telecom Analyst HAMPTON, N.H. – The inauguration of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States will have a direct and indirect impact on the broader economy as well as individual sectors, such as telecom. TBR believes President Trump’s policies will likely...

Editor’s note: Seth Ulinski is a senior analyst in TBR’s Digital Practice, leading coverage of advertising technology (ad tech), marketing technology (martech) and agency landscapes. He focuses on business models and strategies of programmatic advertising, data management and enterprise marketing cloud vendors along with buyer behavior in these high-growth segments. What are some of the top ad tech and martech trends? Seth: There are many interesting developments across these two areas. Three key trends I am seeing: 1. Convergence of advertising and marketing platforms The convergence of historically disparate platforms is occurring through a combination of forces. Chief marketing...

Verizon and AT&T are moving deeper into the Internet of Things through telematics as recent deals with John Deere and a large shipping management firm demonstrate. Telematics is one of the most understood IoT use cases, and because of this, and because of this telecom operators, such as AT&T, Verizon and Vodafone, have been offering telematics services for a long while. However, despite a long history of telematics implementations, telecom companies have been highlighting newer deals, under IoT nomenclature, to promote and sell their respective IoT platforms. In the first two weeks of November, examples of these deals abound....

Editor’s note: Advances in radio interface technology will enable network operators to open up a vast tranche of new spectrum to carry network traffic and thus help drive Internet of Things growth, report Technology Business Research analysts who recently attended a forum on the emergence of 5G technology. This is the second of two reports. HAMPTON, N.H. – 5G will provide the foundation for next-generation IoT While the IoT market will not wait for standards-based 5G once it comes to fruition in 2020, the technology will provide high-bandwidth, low latency machine-to-machine communication, which will be critical for precise IoT....

Editor’s note: Advances in radio interface technology will enable network operators to open up a vast tranche of new spectrum to carry network traffic and thus help drive Internet of Things growth, report Technology Business Research analysts who recently attended a forum on the emergence of 5G technology. This is the first of two reports. TBR perspective The telecom industry in the Americas is in the early stages of a major transformation. With LTE pervasively deployed in North America and operators in the region now shifting focus to LTE-Advanced Pro, 5G and network virtualization, and with Caribbean and Latin...

So what’s happening in the cloud these days? A lot, from emerging trends to changes coming over the next two to three years, says Technology Business Research Analyst Kelsey Mason. Kelsey Mason is an analyst in TBR’s Cloud Practice and leads TBR’s public cloud and hybrid IT research and analysis. She focuses on the business models and strategies of leading cloud and software vendors and the trends influencing these markets. What are some of the top cloud trends? Kelsey: The cloud market is changing on a number of fronts as enterprises’ understanding of cloud and its benefits matures. For...